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Marriage is the process by which two people make their relationship public, official, and permanent. A Oriya Wedding-Marriage-Vivah Sanskar or Kalyanam at its core is essentially a Vedic yajna ritual and three key rituals are almost universal: Kanyadaan, Panigrahana, and Saptapadi—which are respectively, giving away of his daughter by the father, voluntarily holding hands near the fire to signify union, and taking seven ‘steps before fire’. (Each ‘step’ is a complete circuit of the fire)